This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...Valley and all of their antecedents. He was a brother of German Van Amburg, who formerly dwelt in the Covell district, in that part called Canada. (Mr. V. has since died.) Just opposite the Van Amburg home is a tenant house, belonging to Alvin Barnes, whose possessions extend southward, and whose home ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...Valley and all of their antecedents. He was a brother of German Van Amburg, who formerly dwelt in the Covell district, in that part called Canada. (Mr. V. has since died.) Just opposite the Van Amburg home is a tenant house, belonging to Alvin Barnes, whose possessions extend southward, and whose home we shall find on the west side of the road. It is a brick structure, and is in excellent keeping with the other farm houses of this locality. As already stated, Mr. Barnes married Sarah Finch. They have two children--Matilda and Willard. I am told that this place was first held by one Green Plum. There is an absurdity in that name that strikes a hearer or reader at once. If it were sweet or ripe Plum, it would be different, but to be always Green is appalling. Well, Green finally sold out, or was forced off the farm and afterward became mildly insane, and thus died. To him succeeded Simeon Barrett, and his father-in-law, Ebenezer Pierce, that Revolutionary veteran. These people were described in our "Covell" sketches. Then came Arnold K. Rhea, who died in 1852, leaving a widow and three children--John, Leroy and Chloe. All of them finally went west. The widow married George Barnes, and the latter managed the farm until John Rhea came of age, when he went to Michigan. John afterward sold to the present holder, Alvin Barnes, better known in Rose as "Alf." Still further south, and on the east side, is the farm house of James Deady; but it is the long time home of John Vandercook, whose name is indissolubly linked with this locality, for he was the builder of the stately residence. Further back still, I fiud that this was the old Colborn farm, the place to which James Colborn, first, came when he left his early abode near...
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